[PRCo] Re: Cleveland

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> Another thing I did was go to citizens groups to answer questions on new or
> existing service. These were mostly church groups and they complained a
> lot. A much better audience I confronted were  the students at the Boyce
> Campus of Allegheny County Community College. Myself and another guy,
> (Arthur Carter) who began working in SRP when I did, went to ACC on several
> occasions to talk with students on the new services PATransit was
> instituting to that campus.

That'd be CCAC.

>
> I worked on one streetcar routing change. That was sending the 49-Arlington
> Warrington on a new Sunday/Holiday downtown loop. The normal 49 loop was
> Ft. Pitt, Grant, Liberty, Wood, Ft. Pitt. We tested and, for a short time,
> put into service Smithfield, 4th, Ross, Forbes, Grant, Liberty, Wood, Ft.
> Pitt. It lasted a few months until bus drivers coming inbound on Forbes
> claimed the streetcar sitting on Forbes near Grant caused a safety problem
> since they had to squeeze by between the curb and the trolley.

the goal being to provide more sunday connection possibilities?



-- 
Derrick